The Library of Babel

Little Clothbound irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Magical books, infinite libraries, parallel worlds, mazes, labyrinths and philosophical paradoxes haunt these spellbinding tales by one of the most uniquely inventive short story writers of the twentieth century. This collection brings together many of Borges's greatest and most beloved stories, including 'The Garden of Forking Paths', 'The Book of Sand' and 'Shakespeare's Memory'.

 

Contents:

• The Garden of the Forking Paths

• Funes, His Memory

• The Library of Babel

• Death and the Compass

• Tiön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

• The Book of Sand

• The Lottery in Babylon

• Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote

• The Circular Ruins

• Shakespeare's Memory